[lbo-talk] Iranian sexual regime

[Dennis Perrin]

If you read Blaizon on queer Islamic undercurrents
<http://persiansodomycodes.org/p-blaizon> you'll
find that far from the idealized (and empire-friendly)
Western liberal concept of "gay culture,"
the Persian queer masses overwhelmingly prefer religious
subjugation, even punishment, especially if this enhances
the sexual moment and intensifies physical pleasure. Further-
more, Lyle and Resten's six-volume study on punishment
fetishes that are related to religious fervor and societal taboos
<http://caningsuppleflesh.com/welts> reveals hundreds of cases
where gay Islamic men welcome being beaten, up to and including
producing underground porn that celebrates this arrangement. For
arrogant Western liberals and leftists, especially those in the political
queer movements, this merely amounts to some kind of religious
"persecution," which of course gives the imperial state the opening
it needs to pursue regime change in Iran, and elsewhere in the
Islamic world. As Sinda Parlavi eloquently puts it in her latest
book, "The Measure of Pain, The Pleasure of God":
"[W]hen looked at with Western eyes, the beatings of gay men
in Islamic countries, primarily in Iran, seem analagous to 'gay bashing' in
the rural south, or on a dark city street. Hangings, too, are denounced,
especially if a hanging ends in death. But what may appear as abuse
is in reality a deeper love and commitment to social morality that pre-dates 
the
Western concept of 'liberty' and 'identity politics.' If anything, the 
Western sexual
liberationists are the true perverters of solid same-sex values that have 
not only
held together families, tribes, even nations, but have provided 
societal/sexual
balance in societies far older and wiser than those societies that believe 
sexual truth may be
found only in gaudy street parades, on crowded dance floors, and in
anonymous sexual trysts that are oftentimes incubators for disease."
<http://sindaparlavi.net/measure-pleasure/pg237>

Denshi